Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta (4 November 1940 – 11 August 2022) was a Mexican actor. Ojeda was one of the most active actors of

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and cinema in Mexico. He played the villain, Zolo, in the Hollywood film '' Romancing the Stone''.

Career

Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta was born in La Paz, Baja California Sur. He studied acting at the "Instituto de Bellas Artes" ("Institute of Fine Arts") and started his career in theatre. He obtained roles in his first film in his mid-thirties and later participated in the first of his dozens of telenovelas with Televisa two years later. He also took the role of Jimmy in ''P.D. Tu gato ha muerto'', the Spanish-language production of '' P.S. Your Cat Is Dead'' in 1983. From 2005 to 2006, he was part of the cast of the telenovela '' Alborada''.

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards and nominations

TVyNovelas Awards

Premios El Heraldo de México

References

External links

Manuel Ojeda
at the Telenovela Database *

at the

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